Brick molded for walls with a monolithic internal skeleton.



No. 876,298. PATENTED JAN. 7, 1908.

V. GOMPAGNONE. v BRICK MOLDED FUR WALLS WITH A MONOLITHIC INTERNAL SKELETON.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 3.1907.

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BRICK MOLDED FOR WALLS WITH A MONOLITHIG INTERNAL SKELETON.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 3. 1907.

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W; ZWFSSES UNITED .VINGENZO COMPAGNONE, or NAPLES, ITALY.

BRICK MOLDED FOB WALLS WITH A MONOLITHIG INTERNAL SmLETON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Yatented an. 7, 1908.

Application filed May 3.1907. Serial No. 3711671 T 0 all wnom at may concern:

Be it known that I, Vmonnzo Comme- NONE, a citizen of Italy, and a resident of N a ples, Italy, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Molded Bricks for Walls, &c., of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The purpose of the invention is to rov'ide a construction of new walls which, a though composed of various elements separate and distinct of themselves, constitute a monolithic whole, and also to provide especially molded bricks which, by their special form when united and cemented, constitute a structure having a skeleton interior uninterrupted in every direction, whereby a maximum of resistance is obtained with a minimum of thickness.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an imroved brick adapted for floor construction; figs. 2, 3, 4 and 5 are perspective views of differently constructed bricks adapted for use in the formation of walls; Figs. 6 and 7 are perspective views of bricks especially adapted for floor construction; Fig. 8 is a perspec tive view of a brick adapted for wall construc tion; Figs. 9, 10 and 11 are perspective views of bricks particularly adapted for use in the construction of beams; Fig. 12 is a plan view of two connected bricks of the type shown in Fig. 4; Fig. 13 represents a greater number of assembled bricks of the types shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 5; Fig. 14. represents two abutting bricks of the type shown in Fig. 8, the bricks appearing in plan view; Fig. 15 represents an assemblage in plan view of a greater number of bricks of the type shown in Fig. 8 Fig. 16 is a perspective view of a section of flooring showing an assemblage of the bricks of the type shown 5 n Fig. 6, and likewise the type shown in Fig. i; Fig. 17 is a perspective view of a portion of :1 beam constructed from the types of bricfiv '4 shown in Figs. 9 and 10; and

Fig. 1 18 a p-i 'spective view of a section of flee? =i;g constructed from the type of bricks shown Figs. 6 and 7.

The bricks necessary for composing the new construction of walls, floors, pilasters, etc., can be manufactured from any material adapted to the purpose, but they are preferably made of baked clay, and as is shown in the drawings, are of various formations. All of the bricks are substantially rectangular in general contour with the exception of one,

namely that shown in Fig. 7, which is practically T-shaped. In the form of brick A shown in Fig. l, a marginal groove 20 is provided, extending horizontally parallel with the top and the bottom of the brick, the side section of the groove being intersected by a vertical groove 21, and in the form of brick shown in Fig. 2, a marginal groove 23 is likewise produced, but the marginal groove extends along one end only and along two sides, terminating short of the opposite end, and the sections of the grooves 23 are met by vertical grooves 24, and an a erture 25 1s reduced in the brick cxten 'ng throu h irom side to side at the side section of t e groove 23.

The brick shown in Fig. 1 is designated as A and that shown in Fig. 2 as B, and the brick illustrated in Fig. 3-is designated as B. Ihis brick is provided with a marginal groove extending along its four sides, being intersected at its side portion by vertical lower grooves 24 and upper grooves 26, while an aperture 25 corresponding to the aperture 25 shown in Fig. 2 extends through the brick from side to side. I In the brick B shown in Fig. 4, the said brick is provided with grooves in its' upper and lower faces, the said grooves consisting of a longitudinal groove 27 and transverse grooves 28, the outer ends of the transverse grooves 28 meeting vertical grooves 29 in the side faces of the brick, and in the longitudinal groove 27 of the-base grooves an aperture 27 In the form of the brick A, shown in Fig. 6, it is provided with upper and lower grooves 20 and 20 produced in opposing sides. 1 grooves at each side being parallel.

The brick A. shown in Fig. 7 is substar]fiail'y and a s ank member a.

T sha ed, as stated, eomprisin a body a Pa'ralle horizontal grooves 20 are produced in the o posite sides of-the shank a, of this brick, ot erwise itis plain. In the construction of the brick shown 1n Fig. 8, and designated as B, the said brick is provided with dove-tailed recesses or channels 30in its" upper and lower, face, and inits end portions, and is also provided with an elongated or longitudinal central opening 31 extending through from side to side, the opening 31 being crossed at its central portion by a vertical 0 ening 32.

In the brick C, s own in Fi 9, it is provided with end recesses 33 an suitably located artitions 34 In the form of rick 0, shown in Fig. 10,- it is tia y U-shaped recess 35 extending throu h from end to end, and' at the side walls of t e recess 35 substantially dove-tailed shaped or under cut ribs 36 are formed.

In the construction of the brick C illustrated in Fig. 11 said brick is provided'with a single dove-tailed or under cut' rib 37 that extends from end to end.

In Fig. 12 I have shown two bricks laced edge to edge, of the type illustratedin ig. 4, and in Fig. 131 have shown a greater quantit of the same type of bricks assembled.

Ii Fi 14 I have illustrated two of the bricks o the type shown in Fig. 8' assembled, and in Fig. 15 a greater uantity of the same type of bricks is shown, aid together to con' stitute a wall construction.

In Fig. 16 I have shown a section of floor construction made up of the type'of bricks shown in Fig. 6, laid side b side in engagement with each other, nd t c said construction shown in Fi' 1 6's t pical of the group-,

ing of the type 0 bricks s own in Fi 1, also, and in this construction'shown in Fig. 16, I

have thereforeshown vertical openings a which may .beconsidered the equivalents ofthe openin fifi the grooves 21in the brick A, shown in ig. 1.

In Fig. 17 I have illustrated a section of a beam constructed from the type of. bricks C and C shown in Figs. 9 and 10, the bricks C constituting the intermediate course and the bricks C the outer course, and in this construction I have illustrated vertical openings 0 connecting with the openingsmade by the grooves heretofore mentioned so as to enable liciuid cement to be poured into and to fill al of the channels or chambers in the structure, and it may be here stated that these ports as they may be termed can be and preferably are employed in all the constructions which the bricks are capable of producing.

Finally in Fig. 18 I have illustratedia floor construction in which the type of bricks with a series of chambers 34 between its ends produced by rovided' in one side facewith a substa'n'- shown in Figs. 6 and 7 are employed with the addition of sundry ports a produced therein.

vWith reference particularly to the bricks shown in Fig. 8, the'channelings or groovings 30 canbe suppressed in part or in whole according to the external or internal position that the brick may occupy, as may be observed with reference to Figs. 14 and 15 which represent the level placing of said bricks for the construction of ilasters and walls. The manner of procee 'ng to make are placed in horizontal rows alternating with one another with the usual intervening cement or mortar, taking care that the apersuch Walls is substantially 'as follows: to -build pilasters, walls, and the like, the bricks tures and channelings correspond vertically and horizontally. The peripheral joinings are now cemented or plastered, orare filledor covered with stucco,,and when the ilatee ters, walls,-and similar constructions must cemented upon reaching a convenient or given height, the cement in convenient liquid form is poured from above into one or more centrally located passages, as for example,

the passages a a or a, so that the liquid ce' ment can flow into all of the passages or channels adapted to receive it. The same.

method is followed for building vaults, floors, and the like. For these latter constructions, it is evident that above all it will be necessary to provide for the forms and the plain or curved supports, in such a manner that their superficies remain perfectly smooth and in a measure waterproof; that is, in such a condition as not to permit the loss of theli uid cementin material that may purposel iind its way t rou h somepoint between ricks not properly led up.

It is/clearfrom the above mentioned construction, that the cement poured into one of superficiesof the structure shown in Figs. 16, 17 and 18, or in any one of the many chan nels shown in Figs. 12, 13, 14 and 14, is introduced into all of the channels or cavities, filiing them to such an extent that when the ce 'set edgew-ise and each having its ends recessed and provided with a ,pluralit of transverse partitions, and the bricks o the .the channels that are to be observed in the 1 rality of bricks laid in courses, the bricks of the intermediate course being set edgewise and each havingits ends recessed and provided with a plurality of chambers, and the bricks of the outer courses being set flatwise and each having'in one side face a U-shaped recess, the side walls of which are provided with ribs, the whole being adapted to be filled with cement.

3. A beam or the like, comprising a plurality of bricks laid in courses, the bricks of the, intermediate course being set edgewise and each having its ends recessed, and the bricks of the outer courses being set flatwise and each having in one side face a U-shaped recess, the side walls of which are provided with undcrcut'ribs, the whole being adapted to be filled with cement.

' 4. A beam or the like, comprising a plurality of bricks laid in courses, the bricks of the intermediate course each havin a recess at each end, and the bricks of t 1e outer courses eachhaving in its side face a longitudinal recess communicating at its ends with the end recess of the intermediate bricks, the whole being adapted to be filled with a bondmg material.

n testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, 1 have signed my name in presence of two subscribin witnesses.

VINCENZO CfiMPAGNQNE. Witnesses:

WILLIAM GARGIULO,

ROBERTO DE MASELLIN. 

